Rick Santorum enters GOP race
The man with the unfortunate name,
Santorum, enters GOP race
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has confirmed he is running for president, joining a crowded field of Republicans looking to challenge Barack Obama in next year’s election.
The former No. 3 Republican in the US Senate and a favorite among his party’s anti-abortion rights bloc, announced his candidacy on this morning’s edition of “Good Morning America”. “We’re in it to win it,” Santorum said, appearing in front of a banner-draped setting in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Mr Santorum used his brief TV appearance to criticise Mr Obama’s foreign policy, saying among other things he believes he has gone too easy on Iran, which is suspected of trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
Man enough to wear pink . . . man enough to be President
Santorum joins a growing pack of candidates
Other Republican contenders include former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, US Representative Ron Paul, and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, who also served as US ambassador to China. Those considering a bid include Texas governor Rick Perry and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. The party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has not said whether she would run, but is still teasing her supporters.
Santorum had been laying the groundwork for a presidential bid when he lost a bruising re-election bid to the Senate in 2006. His opposition to abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research makes him an appealing candidate for conservatives. But his sometimes abrasive style alienated voters in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania, and they replaced him with Bob Casey, an anti-abortion Democrat. Rick Santorum will find it tough going.
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A man of strong moral fibre. Would make an excellent president.
For what it’s worth, I won’t be voting for Sarah Palin after her revisionist history episode.
Another nut job joining the jesus jumpers of the republican party.